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Hard Traveling (1986)

Hard Traveling poster
Directed by
Dan Bessie
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man down on his luck tries to support his family during the Great Depression. He faces escalating trouble with the law and his own desperate choices.

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What happens

Hard Traveling is a 1986 American drama film written and directed by Dan Bessie and starring J. E. Freeman, Ellen Geer and Barry Corbin. It is based on the 1941 novel Bread and a Stone by Alvah Bessie, the father of Dan Bessie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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